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☆ How a gag order showdown explains everything about Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“He knows what he’s not allowed to do, and he does it anyway.”Conroy was referring to Trump’s incessant testing of a gag order protecting witnesses, court staff and the jury. “Michael Cohen is a convicted liar and he’s got no credibility whatsoever,” Trump said in an interview with WPVI Philadelphia. Trump could face a ladder of escalating sanctionsProsecutors now want Merchan to fine Trump $1,000 for each of 10 alleged violations of the gag order and to warn that imprisonment could be an option if he continues to flout restrictions. Trump claims the gag order stifles his right to free speech and to campaign as a presumptive party nominee. And while a dispute over one partial gag order might seem like a small wrinkle in an individual case, it conveys a wider truth about Trump’s impact on American life.

Persons: Chris Conroy, Donald Trump, “, he’s, ” Conroy, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Juan Merchan, Trump, “ Michael Cohen, ” Trump, CNN’s John Miller, “ Judge Merchan, ”, Jeffrey Swartz, Jim Sciutto, CNN Max, lacerating, Merchan, Elizabeth Williams, Todd Blanche, doesn’t, CNN’s Erin Burnett, —, Jack Smith’s, there’s, •, Joe Biden’s, Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden, mishandle, He’s, president’s, Trump’s, George Conway, ” Conway, CNN’s Burnett Organizations: CNN, GOP, The New, Trump, Philadelphia, Prosecutors, New York City Department of Corrections, Cooley Law, US, Trump Organization, Conservative Political, Conference, Biden Locations: The New York, Washington ,, Georgia

☆ Trump trial: Full jury chosen for New York hush money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Jeenah Moon | ReutersA full jury of 12 people was seated Thursday at the New York criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. "The whole world is watching this New York scam," Trump said. Trump has denounced the trial as a political "witch hunt" and complained that it keeps him off the campaign trail. Former President Donald Trump visits a bodega in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan where a worker killed a man who had assaulted him in 2022, on April 16, 2024 in New York City.

Persons: Donald Trump, Juan Merchan, Trump, Alvin Bragg's, Joe Biden, Stormy Daniels, Brendan McDermid, Merchan, Chris Conroy, Conroy, Jesse Watters, Elizabeth Williams, Reuters Conroy, Watters, Silvio Berlusconi, Berlusconi, Judge Juan Merchan, Spencer Platt Organizations: Reuters, New, Former U.S, Prosecutors, Fox News, Liberal, Manhattan Criminal, Trump, Via Reuters Trump, Getty Locations: Manhattan, New York, York, New York City, U.S, Italy, Italian, bodega, Harlem

☆ From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing Liars to Pay or Apologize
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Michael J. Gottlieb can never remember the exact amount — it’s $148,169,000— that a jury ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay the Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. “Don’t waste your time being angry at those who did this to me and my daughter,” said Ms. Freeman 65, who with her daughter Ms. Moss, 39, was falsely accused by Mr. Giuliani of aiding an imagined plot to steal the 2020 presidential election. “We are more than conquerors.”Less than a decade ago, the two women would have struggled to find a lawyer. But Mr. Gottlieb, a partner at the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, represented them for free. Mr. Gottlieb has also represented the owner of the Washington pizzeria targeted by “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorists as well as the brother of Seth Rich, a young Democratic National Committee staff member whose 2016 murder ignited bogus theories implicating his family.

Persons: Michael J, Gottlieb, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, ”, Freeman, Moss, “, Willkie Farr, Gallagher, Obama, “ Pizzagate, Seth Rich, Meryl Governski Organizations: House, Washington, Democratic National Committee, Protect Democracy Locations: Georgia

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried appeared to wipe away tears during sentencing while his dad held his head in his hands and his mom stared out the window
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Katie Balevic | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Bankman-Fried didn't express remorse for his crimes. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Speaking before the court, Bankman-Fried apologized for the pain caused to customers, maintaining that they could all be repaid in full. Prior to handing down the 25-year sentence, Kaplan called Bankman-Fried a "mathematical wizard," saying he essentially ran a cost-benefit analysis of getting caught versus getting away with fraud.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Lewis Kaplan, Bankman, —, Fried, Joseph Bankman, Barbara Fried, Elizabeth Williams, Marc Mukasey, Nicolas Roos, villainizing, Roos, Kaplan Organizations: Service, AP Locations: Manhattan

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding customers and investors in his failed crypto exchange FTX, a Manhattan court ruled Thursday. In this courtroom sketch, Sam Bankman-Fried, second from right, stands while making a statement during his sentencing in Manhattan federal court on March 28, 2024. There is no parole in federal cases, but Bankman-Fried may still be able to shave years off his term. Since 2018, however, nonviolent federal inmates can reduce their sentence by as much as 50% under prison reform legislation known as the First Step Act. In addition to the prison sentence, Kaplan also ordered a forfeiture of $11.02 billion.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried, Lewis Kaplan, it’s, ” Kaplan, Fried “, Bernard Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, Elizabeth Williams, ” Mitchell Epner, Epner, ” Epner, Jordan Estes, Kramer Levin, “, ” Estes, Kaplan, Joe Bankman, Barbara Fried, ” Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, Federal, of Prisons Locations: New York, Manhattan, San Francisco

☆ Ex-Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández, former US ally, to stand trial in NY for alleged cocaine smuggling empire
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández will stand trial in New York on drug trafficking charges. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in 2020. Juan Orlando Hernández, center in chains, is shown to the press at the Police Headquarters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. In this courtroom sketch, Juan Orlando Hernández, center, speaks into a microphone while pleading not guilty to drug trafficking and weapons charges in 2022. Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernández, the brother of Juan Orlando Hernández.

Persons: Juan Orlando Hernández, Hernández, —, Joaquín, Moises Castillo, Hernández's, James D, it's, Elmer Martinez, Hernández —, Juan Carlos Bonilla, Mauricio Hernandez Pineda, " Pineda, Bonilla, Pineda, Juan Antonio, Tony, Tony Hernández, Tony Hernández's, El Chapo, ledgers, Elizabeth Williams Hernández's, Pamela Ruíz, Rúiz, Cachiros, Hondurans, Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, Alex Ardon, Fernando Antonio, Juan Orlando Organizations: Prosecutors, Service, AP, Embassy, of, Police, Honduran National Police, Central, International, Business, National Party, Sinaloa Cartel, Honduran Locations: Honduran, New York, Honduras, United States, America, Mexican, Manhattan, Tegucigalpa, Hernández, Southern, of New York, Washington, Brooklyn, Tigre, Miami, Colombia, El, Central America, El Paraiso, Guatemala, Sinaloa

☆ As Sam Bankman-Fried awaits prison sentence, FTX customers await a surprise: full repayment
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Government exhibit in the case against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Lawyers representing the bankruptcy estate of FTX told a judge in Delaware last week that they expect to fully repay customers and creditors with legitimate claims. After the dust settled from FTX's bankruptcy, Solana saw a huge run-up in its price, and it continued to rally after the September report. The bankruptcy estate of FTX has been looking to sell its Anthropic stake, according to a court filing this month. For FTX customers, being made whole, according to a judge's ruling, means getting the cash equivalent of what their crypto was worth in November 2022.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried, FTX, Andrew Dietderich, —, Joseph Bankman, Barbara Fried, Brendan Mcdermid, John Ray III, Michael Kives, Braden Perry, FTX's, Ray, we're, It's, Solana, Lewis Kaplan, Elizabeth Williams, Michael Lewis, Lewis, IOUs, Perry, SBF, Renato Mariotti, Mariotti Organizations: Bankman, Federal Court, Reuters, K5 Global, SpaceX, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CNBC, Alameda Research, U.S . Justice Department's Securities, Commodities, SEC Chari Locations: FTX, Delaware, Plenty, Palo Alto , California, New York City, U.S, Bankman, Solana, Alameda, FTX's, Anthropic, New York, Brooklyn

☆ Cast as Criminals, America’s Librarians Rally to Their Own Defense
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During 12 years as a youth librarian in northern Idaho, Denise Neujahr read to and befriended children of many backgrounds. Members of a local church waved signs with images of hellfire and used a bullhorn to shout Bible verses and accusations about sin and pedophile “groomers” in the library. Parents had to escort the teens inside that night, and the library beefed up security. But the next month police arrested a protester outside the doors who was carrying a knife and a loaded gun. youth and their parents, said she was told the group’s funding was in danger.

Persons: Denise Neujahr, ”, groomers, Ms, Neujahr, L.G.B.T.Q Locations: Idaho

☆ ‘My Heart Sank’: In Maine, a Challenge to a Book, and to a Town’s Self-Image
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rich Boulet, the director of the Blue Hill Public Library, was working in his office when a regular patron stopped by to ask how to donate a book to the library. “You just hand it over,” Mr. Boulet said. The book was “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” by the journalist Abigail Shrier. “If I’m being totally honest, my heart sank when I saw it,” Mr. Boulet recalled. Blue Hill delivered a 35-point victory for Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the 2020 presidential race.

Persons: Rich Boulet, Mr, Boulet, ”, Abigail Shrier, ” Mr, Blue Hill, Joseph R, Biden Organizations: Blue, Public Locations: Blue

☆ Former CIA employee sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out largest data leak in agency’s history
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Rob Frehse | Mark Morales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A former CIA employee was sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out the largest data leak in the agency’s history, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday. He was also found guilty in 2023 of receiving, possessing and transporting child pornography, according to the US Attorney’s Office. He had worked as a computer engineer within the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, and created cyber tools that could grab data undetected from computers. A year later, investigators said Schulte stole cyber tools and source code and transferred them to WikiLeaks, according to court records. Schulte, who also allegedly lied to CIA and FBI investigators to cover his tracks, was arrested in August 2017 on child pornography charges.

Persons: CNN —, Joshua Schulte –, –, Schulte, “ Joshua Schulte, Damian Williams, ” Williams, Joshua Schulte, Elizabeth Williams, James Smith Organizations: CNN, CIA, US, Office, Southern, of New York, WikiLeaks, CIA’s, Cyber Intelligence, FBI, AP “, Investigators Locations: New York

☆ The worst movies that the 2024 Oscar nominees have been in, according to critics
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Gabbi Shaw | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Annette Bening — "Life Itself" (2018) and "The Women" (2008)"Life Itself" and "The Women." Amazon Studios; Warner Bros. PicturesRotten Tomatoes scores: 13%Bening has two films that are tied for 13% on Rotten Tomatoes. The most recent movie is "Life Itself," a multi-generational story of trauma, loss, and love. The other lowest-rated film, "The Women," is a remake of the 1939 film of the same name, which was in turn based on a 1936 play. Preferably as far away as possible," wrote Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams of "The Women."

Persons: Annette Bening —, Bening, Oscar Isaac's, Roxana Hadadi, Mary Elizabeth Williams Organizations: Studios, Warner Bros, Rotten

Carroll attorney Shawn Crowley complained about Trump’s audible commentary just before the first break in the trial, after the jury had been excused. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial.”Trump threw up in his hands in protest. “Now look, Ms. Habba,” Kaplan said as Habba began to read from the transcript. One major difference between this trial – a civil trial in federal court – and the Trump Org. civil fraud trial in New York state court is that Trump does not have easy access to a camera at the federal courthouse where the civil defamation trial is taking place.

Persons: Donald Trump, Judge Lewis Kaplan, Jean Carroll, ”, Trump, Carroll, Shawn Crowley, Kaplan, Crowley, Mr, ” Kaplan, “ Mr, ” Trump, “, Judge Arthur Engoron, Engoron, Alina Habba, Elizabeth Williams, she’s, ” Carroll, Carroll’s, brutually, Habba, Michael Madaio, Madaio, there’s, ” Habba, “ We’re, What’s, where’s Trump Carroll, –, he’s, – “, He’s Organizations: CNN, Trump, Federal, New York Magazine, Twitter, Facebook, Trump Org Locations: New York, New Hampshire, Florida

☆ A court artist covering Trump's trial had the perfect response to a Fox commentator calling her work a 'travesty'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kayleigh McEnany poked fun at a courtroom sketch of Trump on "The Five" on Monday. The artist, Elizabeth Williams, said that "dumping on court artists" is becoming more and more common. AdvertisementAdvertisementA courtroom sketch artist has responded to a Fox News commentator who called her drawings of Donald Trump a "travesty." Although other artists' work had been shown in the segment, an image by courtroom sketch artist Elizabeth Williams was displayed on screen at the time. AdvertisementAdvertisementWilliams has been a courtroom artist for decades, and recapped her coverage of Trump going back to the 1980s.

Persons: Kayleigh, Trump, Elizabeth Williams, Williams, —, Donald Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, Letitia James, Dana Perino chimed, Greg Gutfeld, Louis CK, Trump's, Colin Jost, YouTube Jost, Donald Trump Jr, Judge Arthur Engoron, Laura Italiano Organizations: Service, Fox, White House Press, Fox News, New York, Trump, USFL, NFL, SNL, YouTube, Team Trump Locations: Miami

☆ Starbursts, smuggled coffee and Martin Shkreli: How CNBC reported the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

Artist: Elizabeth WilliamsJust before 8 p.m. on Thursday, 12 jurors found Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of all seven counts against him. (CNBC put out a note requesting access ahead of the trial — an email which was ultimately ignored.) Every exit to file a report included another breakneck trip through security, in a sort of run, rinse, repeat cycle — security, courtroom, exit, photographer's car to file, back up through security, over and over again. CNBC correspondent MacKenzie Sigalos reporting on the Sam Bankman-Fried trial from outside the SDNY courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in downtown Manhattan. Around 8:02 p.m., Bankman-Fried, speechless, began to walk to a room just adjacent to the main court.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Elizabeth Williams, Fried, MacKenzie Sigalos, Dan Mangan, Martin Shkreli, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Michael Lewis, Lewis, Indiana Jones, Ben McKenzie, McKenzie, Damian Williams, They'd, Danielle Sassoon, Jane Rosenberg, Joe Bankman, Barbara Fried, Joseph Bankman, Brendan Mcdermid, gaunt, Kaplan, Bankman, Mark Cohen, Judge Kaplan, blankly, Christian Everdell, Cohen Organizations: Alameda Research, Southern, of, CNBC, Auburn University totebag, Capitalism, U.S, Federal Court Locations: of New York, San Francisco, Vegas, Georgia, Manhattan, Indiana, New York City, U.S

☆ Three hours to guilty: How the government nailed Sam Bankman-Fried
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

David Dee Delgado | ReutersIn Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial, prosecutors won quickly by keeping it simple. "While the cryptocurrency industry might be new and the players like Sam Bankman-Fried might be new, this kind of corruption is as old as time," Williams said. Sam Bankman-Fried's parents, seated to the left, react to the verdict. "Sam Bankman-Fried will be remembered as one of the biggest fraudsters of our lifetimes," Mariotti said. WATCH: Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts

Persons: Sam Bankman, David Dee Delgado, CNBC they'd, Yesha Yadav, Fried, Nicolas Roos, Danielle Sassoon, Crypto, Roos, Sassoon, Marc, Antoine Julliard, Renato Mariotti, who's, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Damian Williams, Williams, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Sorkin, that's, It's, SBF, Mariotti, Paul Tuchmann, Wiggin, Dana, Tuchmann, Elizabeth Williams, Caroline Ellison, Bankman, Ellison, James Koutoulas, Koutoulas, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, FTX coder Adam Yedidia, FTX's, Sun, Kevin J, O'Brien, Mark Cohen Organizations: FTX, Manhattan, Reuters, CNBC, Vanderbilt University ., U.S . Justice Department's Securities, Commodities, Southern, of, Prosecutors, Stanford, Alameda Research, New York Times DealBook, Washington , D.C, U.S, Justice Department, Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission Locations: New York City, London, Chicago, U.S, of New York, Alameda, Washington ,, Bankman, New York

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried can't get past the fundamental flaw in his defense strategy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

He claims that Alameda Research, his crypto hedge fund, was treated the same as everyone else on FTX, his now-collapsed crypto exchange. As Sam Bankman-Fried testifies on the witness stand in his criminal case, he has struggled to get past a core, key contradiction at the heart of his legal defense. On the witness stand, Bankman-Fried suggested his crypto hedge fund was not dissimilar to Jane Street Capital, the traditional trading firm where he worked before founding Alameda. As CEO, Ellison failed to make the trades and investments he suggested to hedge in case of a crypto market downturn, Bankman-Fried testified. Bankman-Fried tried to stress that the market conditions in November 2022, when FTX and Alameda collapsed, were an anomaly.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried, that's, —, FTX, Jane Street, Danielle Sassoon, Judge Lewis Kaplan, Elizabeth Williams, Crypto, Sassoon, Chelsea Jia Feng Bankman, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Caroline Ellison, Ellison, Wang, Singh, Fried's, Bankman Organizations: Alameda Research, Prosecutors, Service, Alameda, Jane Street Capital, U.S, AP, wasn't Locations: FTX, Alameda, Manhattan, New York, Bankman

☆ Why Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to spend $10 million a year to put FTX name on sports stadium
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Prosecutors entered corroborating materials, including encrypted Signal messages and other internal documents that appear to show Bankman-Fried orchestrating the spending of FTX customer money. Similarly, Bankman-Fried testified that he believed the lavish Bahamas properties were being paid for with FTX operating cash that came from revenue and venture investments. As for the venture investments, Bankman-Fried said he thought that money was coming from Alameda's operating profits and third-party lending desks. Alameda's venture arm was renamed Clifton Bay Investments, which Bankman-Fried said was a first step in building a dedicated venture brand. When asked about loans he took from the business, Bankman-Fried said they were to pay for venture investments and political donations.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Amanda Perobelli, Fried, District Judge Lewis Kaplan, Mark Cohen, Bankman, Cohen, Sam Bankman Fried, Judge Lewis Kaplan, Elizabeth Williams, Caroline Ellison, Judge Kaplan, Jane, Banks, weren't, cryptocurrencies, FTX, Nishad Singh, Gary Wang, Singh, Wang, Prosecutors, Dan Friedberg, Fenwick, Marco Bello, Ryan Salame, Salame, Katy Perry, —, Dawn Giel Organizations: FTX, Reuters FTX, U.S, District, Stanford, Alameda Research, Elizabeth Williams Prosecutors, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alameda, Fenwick & West, Reuters, NFL's New, NFL's New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs, Facebook, Google, Clifton Bay Investments, Republicans Locations: Manhattan, New York City, U.S, Alameda, Bahamas, Berkeley , California, FTX, Friedberg, Miami , Florida, Miami, NFL's New Orleans, Clifton Bay, Los Angeles

☆ From Bush v. Gore to ‘Stop the Steal’: Kenneth Chesebro’s Long, Strange Trip
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | More About Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In January 2001, Kenneth Chesebro was a mild-mannered Harvard lawyer toiling for Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election recount battle. Two decades later, on Jan. 6, 2021, he joined the mob outside the Capitol, reborn as a MAGA-hatted kingpin. On Friday, Mr. Chesebro’s journey took another turn, when he pleaded guilty in a criminal racketeering indictment in Fulton County, Ga., and agreed to testify against former President Donald J. Trump and other co-defendants, including Rudolph W. Giuliani and several other top Trump aides. Mr. Chesebro’s trial, which had been scheduled to begin Monday, will no longer go forward. Liberal lawyers from his former life had hoped it would provide clues to an enduring mystery: What happened to “The Cheese?’’

Persons: Kenneth Chesebro, toiling, Al Gore, MAGA, Donald J, Trump, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Chesebro, Trump’s, Joseph R, Biden, Chesebro’s Organizations: Harvard, Capitol, Trump, Liberal Locations: Fulton County ,, Georgia

☆ Fox’s top lawyer blasts judge in Dominion case, says trial would’ve been ‘months of utter pain’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Viet Dinh, former Chief Legal and Policy Officer for Fox Corporation. Dinh said Davis issued “really illogical” rulings in the pretrial phase, which “hamstrung” Fox’s defense strategy. This artist sketch depicts Judge Eric Davis of Delaware Superior Court on the bench Monday, April 17, 2023, in Wilmington, Delaware. Elizabeth Williams/APThe judge ruled that none of Fox’s on-air statements about Dominion were true and rejected Fox’s attempts to throw the case out. Dominion made many of these messages public through court filings, and they painted an incredibly damning picture of Fox News.

Persons: CNN —, Viet Dinh, Eric Davis, ” Dinh, –, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Fox, Dinh, Davis, ”, Eric Davis of, Elizabeth Williams, Fox’s, Tucker Carlson, “ Organizations: CNN, Fox, Dominion Voting Systems, Fox Corporation, Delaware, Harvard Law, ” Dominion, Fox News, Eric Davis of Delaware Superior Court, Dominion, Harvard Locations: Viet, Delaware, Wilmington , Delaware, Smartmatic

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried may need a Hail Mary if he wants to win over jurors
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Nishad Singh, former director of engineering at FTX, arrives at federal court in New York on Monday. Whether or not to testify is case-dependent, and clients take a big risk in opening themselves up to cross-examination by prosecutors. The Adderall issueSam Bankman-Fried, center, has pleaded not guilty to seven federal counts of fraud and conspiracy. So he’s only getting one in the morning before he’s transferred to the courthouse and one in the evening. While they have not yet presented their case, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have repeatedly failed to stick the landing when it comes to cross-examining the government’s witnesses.

Persons: CNN Business ’, Sam Bankman, Mary, Nishad Singh, Yuki Iwamura, wouldn’t, ”, Jordan Estes, Kramer Levin, Estes, aren’t, Hail Mary, Elizabeth Williams, Mark Cohen, he’s, Cohen, hasn’t, Fried, Bankman, ” Cohen, Caroline Ellison, you’ll Organizations: CNN Business, New York CNN, Alameda Research, Bloomberg, US Attorney’s, Hail, AP, Metropolitan Detention, of Prisons Locations: New York, Manhattan, Bankman, Alameda, FTX

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire was ‘built on lies,’ US prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —In their opening statements to a newly sworn-in jury in Manhattan federal court, lawyers laid out previews of their cases, offering two divergent narratives for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire. The US government has charged Bankman-Fried with multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy, following the implosion of his crypto-trading platform, FTX, last year. But as his own lawyer, Mark Cohen, stepped up to speak, Bankman-Fried’s demeanor softened and his focus shifted to the jury box. “Sam didn’t defraud anyone,” he told jurors, arguing that his client acted in good faith throughout the rise and fall of his startups. Legal experts say Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have their work cut out for them.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Thane Rehn, ” Rehn, Fried, “, ”, Elizabeth Williams, Rehn, Mark Cohen, Cohen, Sam didn’t, Sam, ” Cohen, FTX’s, FTX, “ It’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Prosecutors Locations: New York, Manhattan, Bahamas

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried's old penthouse roommate insisted on immunity before testifying because he feared he unwittingly facilitated a crime
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Yedidia insisted on immunity to testify because he was worried he may have facilitated a crime. AdvertisementAdvertisementBefore Adam Yedidia could testify against Sam Bankman-Fried at the FTX cofounder's criminal trial, he needed reassurances. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis courtroom sketch shows Adam Yedidia, former FTX and Alameda Research employee and former friend of Sam Bankman-Fried, testifying, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. In 2017, he worked at Alameda Research for two months as a trader before leaving to pursue a PhD. Yedidia said he lived in a $35 million penthouse apartment in the Bahamas, which he said Alameda Research purchased at Bankman-Fried's direction.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Adam Yedidia, Yedidia, —, Fried, Elizabeth Williams, Lewis Kaplan, who's, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Prosecutors, Wang, Yedida Organizations: Service, Prosecutors, Alameda Research, AP, MIT Locations: Alameda, Manhattan, FTX, Bankman, Bahamas

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson was honored as the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in a row. Wilson received 32 of 60 votes from a national media panel. No other player received more than three votes. In playing for the league's top-rated defense, Wilson also led the WNBA in defensive efficiency rating (93.2) and blocked shots (2.2). This is the third time in four years Wilson led the league in blocked shots.

Persons: HENDERSON, A'ja Wilson, Wilson, Alyssa Thomas, Thomas, Brittney Sykes, Breanna Stewart, Jordin Canada, Betnijah Laney, Ezi, Nneka, Napheesa Collier, Elizabeth Williams, ___ Organizations: Las Vegas Aces, WNBA, Connecticut Sun, Washington Mystics, New York Liberty, Los Angeles Sparks, Liberty, Seattle Storm, Sparks, Minnesota Lynx, Chicago Sky, Aces, Wings Locations: Nev

☆ Sandy Hook Families Say Alex Jones Cannot Hide Behind Bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | More About Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lawyers for the Sandy Hook families who won historic defamation damages against the Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones told a federal bankruptcy judge in Houston on Tuesday that Mr. Jones should not be allowed to use his Chapter 11 filing to evade $1 billion-plus verdicts made against him. If the judge rules in the families’ favor, Mr. Jones would likely be working the rest of his life to pay the debt. Mr. Jones spent years spreading lies that the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax aimed at gun control. Families of 10 victims sued him for defamation, and in trials in Texas and Connecticut were awarded about $1.4 billion in damages. As the cases went to trial, Infowars declared bankruptcy, and Mr. Jones declared personal bankruptcy late last year.

Persons: Sandy Hook, Alex Jones, Jones, Christopher Lopez, Infowars, Jones’s, Chris Davis, Veronique De La Rosa, Noah Pozner Organizations: Sandy Hook Elementary Locations: Houston, Sandy, Newtown, Conn, Texas, Connecticut

☆ The Question After Every Mass Shooting: How Much Do We Deserve to Know?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | More About Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Shortly after the shooting, Colleen Murphy, executive director and general counsel of Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission, received a call from a state legislator convinced that the filmmaker Michael Moore was seeking crime scene photos of the children. But Ms. Murphy told the lawmaker that her office, which fields all public records requests, had received no such inquiry. Some Sandy Hook families interpreted Mr. Moore’s remarks as “a horrific campaign to make the crime scene photos public,” Jennifer Hensel, whose 6-year-old daughter Avielle Richman died, wrote in The New Haven Register. “We cannot stand the thought of seeing the graphic depiction of our child’s death promoted to serve anyone’s political purposes.”Mr. Moore publicly clarified his view that no one should release photos without the families’ permission. Yet even today those requesting Connecticut homicide-related records must demonstrate that the release does not constitute an “unwarranted invasion of privacy.”

Persons: Colleen Murphy, Michael Moore, Murphy, Moore, Columbine ”, Mamie Till, Emmett Till, Sandy Hook, Moore’s, ” Jennifer Hensel, Avielle Richman, Mr Organizations: Information Commission, Columbine, JET, New Haven Register, The Hartford Courant Locations: Colorado, Mississippi, Hartford, The Connecticut

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